fowl
A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl, also called gamefowl, and…A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
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» Neither fish nor fowl.
Weder Fisch noch Fleisch. — Alois
Ни рыба ни мясо. — al_ex_an_der
Ні риба ні м'ясо. — Ahha
Хтозна що. — aandrusiak
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8 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 1
Examples
13 sentencesNeither fish nor fowl.
Ні риба ні м'ясо. — Ahha
ruНи рыба ни мясо. — al_ex_an_der
deWeder Fisch noch Fleisch. — Alois
He made off with the fowl.
This region is famous for its fowl.
Meaning
2 sensesA bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
Stück Federvieh, Geflügel, Geflügel
дома́шняя пти́цаdomášnjaja ptíca, перна́тая дичьpernátaja dičʹ
(archaic)Any bird.
- a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
- the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
Origin
From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from ProFrom Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.
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Forms
plural: fowl / fowlsSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
29 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
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